How to Keep Soccer Stats with Tap Live Stats

Soccer stats tell the story the scoreline leaves out: who created the chances, who kept the shots on target, who won the ball back and who kept the clean sheet. Tap Live Stats lets you keep a full box score for both teams on your phone, one tap per play, and keeps the score for you as goals go in. This guide covers recording each play, the score, and reading the box score column by column.

Before the game

Open Tap Live Stats, tap Track Player Stats, then Start New Game and choose Soccer. Enter the home and visiting team names, check the date and time, and tap OK. Your game appears in the list; tap it to start recording.

Have both rosters' jersey numbers handy, including the goalkeepers. Every stat is recorded against a jersey number.

What you can record

The buttons are grouped by what they do:

  • Attacking: Goal, Assist, Shot on Goal and Shot Wide.
  • Defending: Tackle, Interception, Clearance and Save, the goalkeeper's button.
  • Set pieces and crosses: Corner Kick and Cross.
  • Discipline: Foul, Yellow Card and Red Card.

Recording a play

Every play takes the same three steps:

  1. Tap the button for what just happened, such as Goal.
  2. On the number pad, check the team. The pad names the team at the top; tap the other team's button to switch.
  3. Tap the player's jersey number and tap the green check mark.

The red ✗ closes the pad without saving, and the backspace key fixes a mistyped digit. Recorded plays appear in a list at the top of the screen, newest first.

Quick-select jerseys

Below the keypad are five quick-select slots. The first five jersey numbers you record fill them, and after that one tap on a slot enters that number. To put the number you have typed into a slot instead, tap the slot before you confirm. Loading your regulars into the slots early makes a fast game much easier to keep up with.

The number pad for a Goal by number 9 of the Riverside Rockets
The number pad for a Goal by number 9 of the Riverside Rockets
A soccer game in progress, with the action buttons below the list of recorded plays
A soccer game in progress, with the action buttons below the list of recorded plays

Keeping the score

Goal adds one to the scoring team's score automatically, and deleting a goal takes it back off. No other button changes the score.

If the score on the screen drifts from the scoreboard, tap the team's score and type the correct number.

Recording common plays

Each button records one player's part of a play, so a play that involves two players takes two entries. Recording them the way a statistician would keeps both teams' box scores honest:

  • An assisted goal: Goal for the scorer, then Assist for the passer. A goal already counts as a shot on goal, so never add Shot on Goal to it.
  • A saved shot: Shot on Goal for the shooter, then Save for the goalkeeper.
  • A booking: Foul for the player if it was for a foul, then Yellow Card or Red Card. Each has its own column.
  • A penalty kick: Goal if it goes in; otherwise Shot on Goal and Save if the keeper stops it, or Shot Wide if it misses.
  • An own goal: there is no button for it, so tap the score and add it by hand rather than crediting a goal to a player.

Fixing mistakes

Wrong player? Tap the pencil next to the play and enter the right jersey number. Wrong button or wrong team? Tap the trash can to remove the play and record it again; deleting a goal takes it off the score. The box score updates to match.

If you are signed in, deleting a play also deletes its backed-up copy, so it does not come back, and edits are backed up the next time your game is.

Reading the box score

Open View Stats on the game for a box score of every player on both teams, sorted by jersey number, with a TOTAL row for each team. Here is what each column means and how it is calculated:

  • G, A: goals and assists.
  • SOG, SW: shots on goal, goals included, and shots wide.
  • TKL, INT, CLR, SV: tackles, interceptions, clearances and goalkeeper saves.
  • CK, CR: corner kicks and crosses.
  • FL, YC, RC: fouls, yellow cards and red cards.

A dash means the player had none of that stat, or no attempts for a percentage.

The soccer box score for both teams, with goals, assists and shots on goal
The soccer box score for both teams, with goals, assists and shots on goal

Sharing the stats

Tap Save PDF on the box score to create a report with both teams' full stats and totals. The PDF is made on your phone, so it works even without a signal, and you can send it to the team as soon as the game ends.

If you are signed in, your games are backed up to your account whenever you open the Track Player Stats list, and Save to Cloud on the recording screen backs them up right away. Cloud Stats, on the Track Player Stats page, then has a Soccer tab with one row per player per game and every box-score column. Filter by jersey number to see one player's season, or tap Export CSV for a spreadsheet. A free account shows its active games; Premium includes archived games too.

Tips for accurate stats

  • Record plays as they happen. In soccer the ball rarely stops, so a quick tap beats a long memory.
  • Watch the goalkeepers. Saves are the easiest stat to forget and the one keepers care about most.
  • Check the score against the scoreboard at half time, and fix any difference while the half is fresh in your mind.
  • Not sure what a screen does? Tap the ? at the top of the recording screen for a short walkthrough.

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